Brad Nelson
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 16, 2023 7:24:07 GMT -8
I was thinking further about that one white guy who gave me all kinds of in-your-face lip because I simply told him there was no parking in the lot. He said he was there to meet with the pastor and then got all in my face about how I had "labeled" him.
At worst, I "labeled" him as a trespasser. But upon getting his story that he was there to meet the pastor, I asked him what the pastor's name was. He got that right (although it is on the sign on the building). Because he was being so unnaturally belligerent, I wasn't accepting his story so I asked him his name so that I could call the pastor and confirm it.
Well, I never did get a call back from the pastor and this fellow would only give me his first name. And although this guy eventually left, I think I saw the same red Mustang in the parking lot during services. So he may well have returned and attended church services.
But in the midst of his passive-aggressive diatribe he told me that he was going to be the future pastor of the church. He was trying to intimidate me which didn't exactly work when I told him that I was the owner of the building. So you might understand why I had serious doubts about this guy.
And then he got all in my face about the "labeling" thing again and again. And he asked what I did when some homeless person came by. And I told him this, in fact, has happened several times and I always tell them to move on. And then he asks me if I ever wondered where they went from there. The standard passive-aggressive guilt-trip (which I never book passage on).
You might understand by now that I have more than passing experience dealing with "the homeless" and their apologists. And I spent most of the following Monday working my ass off, attending to all the details to keep this ship running. And if you've run a business (and you have), you know the details are considerable, never-ending, and often involve (such as property taxes) a significant amount of money.
And it occurred to me (and not for the first time) that basically what "the homeless" and their apologists demand is that you work for them. They want you to do all the myriad day-to-day things that make it possible to have a piece a property and a building and to make it available to them on demand.
This is why I think the namby-pamby approach to the Leftist immorality that we see running rampant is feckless. These people can only make demands on us when they first meet some fundamental responsibilities: clean yourself up, get off of drugs or alcohol, and get a job.
Then we can talk about the betterment of mankind, love for your neighbor, and all that. But until they meet their part of the bargain, they should correctly be categorized as the parasites that they are. Their condition may well be sad and deserving of natural human sympathy. But no solution is possible without these people (with forced institutionalization, if necessary) first meeting their part of the basic bargain of living in civilization.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 16, 2023 7:43:35 GMT -8
I also think it is often a good thing for kids to have pets. Taking care of a pet teaches responsibility and the love which a child can share with a pet can be wonderful. There is a reason for the old saying, "a boy and his dog."
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Post by kungfuzu on May 16, 2023 8:45:40 GMT -8
An excellent example of what I was talking about. Heartwarming. He was driving
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Post by kungfuzu on May 16, 2023 8:49:57 GMT -8
Tsk, tsk. How un-Christian. That's how these leftist usually answer a Christian who follows the Bible which has guidelines for behavior. There is a reason for the old saying, "the devil is in the details." As regards "never-ending" I have long noted that in a business, as in life, the only thing that never stops is "the bills."
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Post by artraveler on May 16, 2023 11:15:51 GMT -8
categorized as the parasites Exactly, the hard part for normal people is when belief in the story, and there is always a story, is often difficult to do. A friend of mine in Sacramento, a Jesuit Priest, would carry baggies of trail mix in his car and when one of the deranged parasites approached his car looking for a handout he would give them the baggie of trail mix. Mike said he never gave money, he knew it always went to drugs or booze, but the trail mix put off his conscience and provided something for nourishment. Just because he wore a roman collar they thought him a soft touch. Like Brad, Mike thought until they took some responsibility for their own life, there was little to do to make a difference. Government is always seeking to exploit the misfortunate, widows, orphans, homeless and the crazy. The argument is always the same seeking to spend taxpayer dollars when they won't spend as dime of their own. Then they virtue signal about how they have spent your money. These are the real parasites.
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Brad Nelson
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 16, 2023 14:51:39 GMT -8
Remember when I was complaining about that yute on the corner (right across from me basically) who built an eight foot high fence around his property? Remember how I said I had an instinct that I didn't like him?
Well, he could possibly be a nice guy. But I saw this doofus chasing his dog around the neighborhood just now. The dog must have got out or something. He kept calling to the dog and the dog ignored him. One car that was passing by smartly pulled off to the side off the road and waited while this doofus and his dog (should be a Disney movie) ran all over. He was still calling for his dog when I gave up my gardening and came inside. It was getting a little hot.
My theory is, if you can't control your own dog (it was a spaniel or retriever of some type), you can't control your life, let alone your wife. (Don't tell the Feminazis that I said that.)
So, yeah, kids can learn a heck of a lot from the responsibility of caring for a dog because you definitely don't want to grow up to be a doofus.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 16, 2023 15:05:23 GMT -8
That's a heck of a lot better than the idiots who give them money. I think screaming "Get a job, you bum" is the best approach but I understand that it might not look good for a priest to get caught doing that.
One of the things we can say about this and other phenomenon in society is: That experiment has been run, and we know the results.
This is no longer theory. When I was a snot-nosed kid in high school, I was on the debate team. And one of the topics was welfare. The debate topic changes every year. But that's what it was my first year. And so the debate centered around whether you were doing good or harm. And this was all simply disconnected intellectual arguments. No better than what you hear at a Senate or House hearing. All fluff because none of us knew the answer to the question. And, arguably, neither did anyone else. It was all just posturing and sound bytes.
Well, that experiment has been run. Welfare (and such things) are very good for one particular class of people: politicians. That is why they exist.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 16, 2023 17:12:56 GMT -8
I vaguely recall someone telling a story, some fifty years or so back, that a bum came up to him on the street and asked for money. He told the bum that he wouldn't give him money, but would buy him breakfast in a nearby diner. The bum declined the invitation.
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Post by artraveler on May 16, 2023 17:14:45 GMT -8
Michael Kennedy B 1940 D 2006. Mike gained a CPA in 1990 and was promoted to Monsignor, working as a traveling auditor for the Sacramento diocese. He was a loyal friend and a compassionate priest who never put up with BS. He was widely respected across the Sacramento valley. His funnel mass was attended by hundreds. He had no patience for priests who betrayed their vows to comfort the sick. Priests who molested children he damned to hell.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 16, 2023 17:21:58 GMT -8
Ya gotta figure that the dog doesn't hold the guy in high regard. Just some smuck who feeds him.
We had lots of dogs when I was growing up and they all respected my father. I remember him walking down our driveway while Blackie was fooling around half-way down our long block. My father whistled and Blackie came running back.
Blackie was a lot of fun. I could pat my chest with both hands and he would jump up to me and let me catch him. When a fire engine or police car drove by, sirens blaring, Blackie would howl like a banshee. We never used leases and had no trouble with any of our dogs. As a kid, I would not have taken $1 million for my dogs Blackie and Julie, literally. For some reason the question came up, I think my father asked me, and I gave an emphatic NO for an answer. Sometimes kids understand what is important.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 16, 2023 18:25:21 GMT -8
Perhaps I should hold this dog in higher esteem. When he barks at me (as he did today when he wandered onto my property for a moment) he might have been saying, "Help me. Help me. Save me from this idiot."
I don't speak dog so that is just speculation.
Here's to Blackie and Julie. Probably not Democrats. Likely they were Caniinites and their politics are probably much more conservative. They had a bone to pick with everybody.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 17, 2023 7:18:54 GMT -8
Given the important issues of the day, I gave more thought to the issue of Blackie and Julie and their doggie leanings.
I had completely forgotten that back in the day the Livertarian Party was popular, as it still is now. Yeah, it had some kooky dogma as well, including prohibition of all leash laws no matter the circumstances. They also believed in free meat for everyone and that any lamppost, hydrant, or lawn was theirs to use.
It was a pack mentality, for sure. Your dogs sound too respectable for that sort of thing, but a lot of dogs went for it. They could have been proper Repuplicans, of course. You would know best.
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Post by kungfuzu on May 17, 2023 8:50:53 GMT -8
I can't come close to your post. I can only confirm that Blackie and Julie were strong Repuplicans who had no time for pawpers sniffing around for a free hand out, or digging up dirt looking to profit from other's rainy-day stashes. They represented America at its finest. Blackie was a true mutt, part Dachshund and Beagle, at the very least. Solid black, short legs, long body and the heart and bark of a German Shepard. Nobody could approach us without him letting us know of a foreign presence. Julie was a small blue-ribbon purebred Toy Fox Terrier, who punched way above her weight and kept Blackie in line. He thought she was his mother.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 17, 2023 9:14:28 GMT -8
Very good. And, of course, you won't be surprised to learn that most French poodles are Barxists.
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Post by Brad Nelson on May 22, 2023 15:42:50 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on May 22, 2023 16:42:54 GMT -8
There is nothing particularly new or amazing in this. As I have written before, anyone who reads history will understand that the "elites" of a society are often as debauched and vulgar than the vulgar. (In the Shakespearean sense.) The one because they had enormous wealth and did not have to adhere to norms, while the other, having nothing to lose, did not care a fig for propriety.
As far as the broad dissemination of cultural and moral standards, it has been the God-Fearing Middle Class which has held the line. It has also been the Middle Class, in its original meaning, which has brought huge prosperity across the globe. A hint why this might be so-If one is not born to wealth, and not a criminal scumbag, it normally requires hard work and reasonably clean living, i.e discipline, to pull oneself up and stay there.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 28, 2024 18:58:28 GMT -8
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